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Street lamps powered by discarded batteries light the neighborhood for cheap

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:40:09 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Really cool idea

That battery you're throwing away may not have enough energy left to power your gadgetry, but it does have enough juice to light up a low-energy LED. That's the driving idea behind South Korean designer Sung Woo Park's conceptual Energy Seed, a stylish street lamp powered entirely by discarded batteries.

Drop a battery into one of the Energy Seed's disposal holes and it'll fall down into a tube. Several batteries can be stacked one on top of the other, daisy-chaining drained batteries into a long-lasting power supply for an LED lamp that will give pedestrians a bit of light on the sidewalk. It's a great way to re-appropriate trash that we'd otherwise consider useless.

Tags: clean energy, recycling

Eye Colour

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:22:25 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.colourlovers.com

Some of the most amazing colors can be found in the eyes of the creatures looking back at us. Here’s a gallery of some of mother nature’s remarkable gazes.

Learning How Not To Be Afraid

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:35:41 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: When Kandel's team used radiation to blunt the birth of new cells in the dentate gyrus, they discovered that their interventions both slowed safety learning and stunted the antidepressant effects of learned safety.

Another study that points to the origin of fear as a biological entity. the glitch is it turning into anxiety.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Learning How Not To Be Afraid

experiments in which they conditioned mice to feel safe in stressful situations

The behavioral changes observed in the mice squelched anxiety as effectively as antidepressant drugs

The new study is noteworthy because it reveals in elegant detail how behavioral conditioning can affect the brain.

Two types of fear, instinctive and learned, have deep evolutionary roots and are essential for survival.

But in some people, pathological forms of learned fear can lead to debilitating anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress syndrome, or depression

"The ability to identify, develop, and exploit conditions of safety and security is central to survival and mental health

taught mice to associate a specific audible tone with protection from an impending averse event

We found that the mice trained for safety could overcome their sense of hopelessness in the swim test

conditioned for safety had a greater number of newborn cells in the dentate gyrus

Tags: fear, neuroscience

Even When You Sleep, Your Brain Is Awake

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:05:15 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.scientificblogging.com

Sleep in man is divided in two main phases : non-REM sleep, which occupies most of our early sleep night, and REM sleep, during which our dreams prevail. Non-REM sleep is usually considered as a compensatory ‘resting’ state for the brain, following the intense waking brain activity. Indeed, previous brain imaging studies showed that the brain was less active during periods of non-REM sleep as compared to periods of wakefulness.

Although not rejecting this concept, researchers from the Cyclotron Research Centre of the University of Liège in Belgium and from the Department of Neurology of Liege University Hospital demonstrate that, even during its deepest stages (also called ‘slow-wave-sleep’), non-REM sleep should not be viewed as a stage of constant and continuous brain activity decrease, but is also characterized by transient and recurrent activity increases in specific brain areas.

Tags: neuroscience, sleep

Breaking News!!!

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:37:47 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Oh, really?

Clip Source: img374.imageshack.us

DNA could reveal your surname

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:11:56 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Cool and... frightening

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

Scientists at the world-leading Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester – where the revolutionary technique of genetic fingerprinting was invented by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys- are developing techniques which may one day allow police to work out someone's surname from the DNA alone.

Doctoral research by Turi King has shown that men with the same British surname are highly likely to be genetically linked. The results of her research have implications in the fields of forensics, genealogy, epidemiology and the history of surnames.

Dr King said: "In Britain, surnames are passed down from father to son. A piece of our DNA, the Y chromosome, is the one part of our genetic material that confers maleness and is passed, like surnames, from father to son. Therefore, a link could exist between a man's surname and the type of Y chromosome he carries. A simple link between name and Y chromosome could in principle connect all men sharing a surname into one large family tree.

Tags: dna, genealogy, forensics

Rednecks for Obama

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:21:32 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: rednecks4obama.com

We now have online ordering of Rednecks for Obama shirts and bumper stickers - check out the merchandise page.

Are you a redneck who supports Barack Obama? TELL US YOUR STORY on our Guestbook!

Tags: obama, election, rednecks

It's Called Hubris

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:13:50 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — George W. Bush began his presidency with the worst terrorist attack on American soil and he is ending it with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In between, he confronted a hurricane that nearly wiped New Orleans off the map as his administration showed ineptitude in its response.

Now, as he spends his last months in office trying to avert a global economic collapse, Mr. Bush has been telling people privately that it’s a good thing he’s in charge.

Mr. Bush has always been confident of himself, even when the American public was not, and that has not changed. Just as he is convinced he did the right thing in Iraq, he is convinced he is doing the right thing on the economy — despite job approval ratings at historic lows and a presidential campaign in which both candidates have used him as kind of a battering ram.

McCain Tells Supporters to Dial Back the Hate, Gets Booed for It

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:12:28 GMT

clipped by: Wisco
clipper's remarks: How disappointed they must be to find out they don't finally have an openly racist candidate. Good luck getting that geni back in the bottle, John. You may not have created this monster, but you gave it a place to live.

It's a little late to try to kick it out now.

Clip Source: www.mcclatchydc.com

John McCain on Friday moved to calm rising anger among his supporters at rival Barack Obama, calling him a decent man and at one point taking the microphone away from a woman who'd called Obama an Arab.

Their anger apparently still at flash point, McCain's supporters then booed him for his conciliatory words about Obama.

Increasingly angry, supporters of McCain and running mate Sarah Palin have responded at rallies with loud cries of "terrorist" and "traitor."

But when one man said he was scared to raise his unborn child in a country that might be led by a President Obama, McCain disagreed.

Later, another supporter told McCain, "I don't trust Obama...He's an Arab."

McCain stood shaking his head as she spoke, then quickly took the microphone from her.

Tags: news

Investigation Ties Palin to 'Extreme Right-Wing Fringe'

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:18:05 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: A "New World Order", eh?

There's a video at the site.

Clip Source: rawstory.com

Investigation ties Palin to 'extreme right-wing fringe'

according to a new investigative report, vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin

has had a far close and more extensive association with Alaska's own political extremists than she has ever acknowledged.

The story

offers an in-depth examination of the crucial role played in Palin's political career by two members of the secessionist Alaska Independence Party (AIP).

AIP -- which has links to both neo-Confederate parties in the South and the theocratic Constitutional Party -- serves as "a haven for anti-government extremists, anti-government militia members, and conspiratorial figures who believe that the United States government plans to implement a New World Order."

its founder, Joe Vogler, is known for having proclaiming "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."

Palin attended some conventions and sent them a message earlier this year saying, "Keep up the good work,"

I'll Take Hope Over Fear and Loathing, Thank You Very Much

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:00:26 GMT

clipped by: dulios
clipper's remarks: I am by training a historian. My focus of study has been 20th century Europe and the rise of fascism. The "othering' taking place on the right and from the Republican candidates themselves is horrifying to behold. Who's to blame for the economic crisis? Barney Frank (faggot!), ACORN (niggers!), Barack Hussein Obama (half-breed Muslim!). I see it on the internet, I see it on TV, I see it in newspapers, I see it here on ClipMarks: race-baiting, fear-mongering, scapegoating.

Enough! Not here! Not now! Not ever again!

If I may quote Obama, "Not this time!

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

Savage: "I fear that Obama will stir up a race war ... in order to seize absolute power"

During the October 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage invited callers to discuss what they "fear the most if [Sen. Barack] Obama wins" the presidential election. After airing a clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Savage said: "I fear that Obama will stir up a race war. You want to ask me what I fear? I think Obama will empower the racists in this country and stir up a race war in order to seize absolute power." Savage later said: "I want you to call this show and tell me what you fear about Barack Hussein Obama as president."

SAVAGE: Oh no, I want everyone to strip off all of their social constraints right now on this show. And I want them to get down to the core fear that they have for Obama. I want to hear it on this show, and I thank you. And you can call me at 1-800-449-8255. Don't hold anything back.

Tags: race